Mexico City: US President Joe Biden will seek Mexico's help tackling illegal flows of migrants and drugs, particularly deadly opioids, during a visit beginning Sunday (Monday in Manila) for a North American leaders' summit.
Aiming to tame criticism over what he has called a 'broken' immigration system, Biden will stop off in Texas for his first trip to a border overwhelmed by record numbers of migrants and asylum-seekers.
Members of the national guards and Mexican army drive on a road a day after an operation to arrest the son of Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, Ovidio Guzman, in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, on Jan. 6, 2023. Mexican security forces on Thursday captured a son of jailed drug kingpin Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, scoring a high-profile win in the fight against powerful cartels days before US President Joe Biden visits. Ovidio Guzman, who was arrested in the northwestern city of Culiacan, is accused of leading a faction of his father's notorious Sinaloa cartel, Defense Minister Luis Cresencio Sandoval told reporters. AFP PHOTO
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